THIS WEEK IN PHOTOS

A picture shows boats crossing the new waterway at the new Suez Canal in the Egyptian port city of Ismailia, east of Cairo. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

A member of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) mans a mounted machine gun in the Al-Nashwa neighbourhood in the northeastern Syrian province of Hasakeh. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

An Iraqi fighter from the Shiite Muslim Al-Abbas popular mobilisation unit looks out through the window of a plane during an air combat training session in the holy city of Karbala. (AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)

A picture taken with an underwater camera shows Egypt's divers Maha Abdelsalam Gouda and Mohab Elkordy competing in the 10m platform synchronised mixed final diving event at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan. (AFP/Francois Xavier Marit)

Workers unload bags of food from a UN's World Food Programme ship docked in Yemen's devastated port city of Aden as it brings in desperately needed relief supplies after four months of fierce fighting between rebels and loyalist fighters. (AFP/STR)

Mourners cover the graves of victims of a suicide bomb attack during their funeral in Suruc in Turkey's Sanliurfa province. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

A young migrant coming from Syria sleeps on a train heading north from Nis to Belgrade. Illegal immigrants cross Serbia on their way to other European countries as it has land access to four members. (AFP/Dimitar Dilkoff)

The children of an impoverished Iraqi family reportedly living on five dollars a day and living in structures made up of scrap metal pose for a photo at their home in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf. (AFP/Haidar Hamadani)

Like a growing number of German employers, garage-owner Robert Menhofer has decided to give a young refugee a chance and is lavish in his praise for George Romanos, a young trainee from Syria. (AFP/Chistof Stache)

A young Syrian refugee toddler sits inside a makeshift shelter at an informal refugee camp in the area of Zahrani, south of the Lebanese capital Beirut. (AFP/Joseph Eid)

A picture shows a rickshaw also known as "Tuk-tuk" decorated different Disney characters in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. (AFP/PatrickK Baz)

An Iraqi Shiite fighter from the Popular Mobilisation units supporting the Iraqi government forces fires towards Islamic State (IS) group positions during clashes on the northern outskirts of the city of Fallujah, west of the capital Baghdad. (AFP/ Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

A Pakistani worker arranges Seviyan (thin vermicelli) which is used for the preparation of 'sheerkhurma', a traditional sweet dish prepared by the Muslim community during the holy month of Ramadan, in a dry room of factory in Rawalpindi. (AFP/Farooq Naeem)

Palestinian kids sit inside their destroyed family home, which they fitted with 3 portacabins, in the Eastern Gaza City Shujaiya neighbourhood. (AFP/Thomas Coex)